The Irish standard., 1887-10-22
ANClICANS and ACN0STICS.
The Dead-Sea Fruits Of the Estab-
lished Church of
England
INFiDELITY RE|GNS IN ENGLAND,

England.
| IMFiDELITY RE|GNS IN ENGLAND,
Tie Religious Condition Of the Cultured
Man to be Found About Pioca-
dilly and Pail Mali.
In a. discourse recently delivered at
st. Charles Church London. to large
congregation, Rev. w. G. Robinson.
said OF non-CatboIic England. hy way
OF peroration, that ali along the line it
was negaticn and overthrow. Admit
ting that Luther and the reforrners at
least conducted their movement with
religion, he could only say in answer to
the question whether they knew that in
doing what they did they were sowing
infdelity; that "God is not mocked,"
and ''as man soWeth SO Shall he reap"
| Aud the fruits OF the reformation i'll
cluded the iniideli5y which now existed,
and he was sorry to say was growing
in every Glass OF English society. What
was the religious condition Of the cul-
tured NAN they found about I'iccadilly
and Pail Mall? Inddelity. Let them
look at our Warehouss3s--t those enor~
nous institutions which are the
fashion. WHAT is tiAe talk of the young
men aad young women employed therea
1t is inhdelity, Let them go to the
WoEkshop--ib nlattered not what the
toWn---a1ld what was the attitude OF the
mechanics towards religion? In6del-
ity. Let them go to theinfrnaries and
hospitals and such like public lnstitu-
tions. What WAS the testimony of
nurses and doctors as to the state OF
the average Englishman or English.
woman when they came to die? Do
they talk or think OF God? NO: they
Gle like dogs And what is the cause
OF all this? The church of England.
He asked English cIlurchmen it they
called them selves church? For 300
years they had had free hand; they
had robbed tha Catholic Church, they
had confscated the property OF the re-
ligious orders, they had turned out
everything belonging Go the old faith,
they had tried to turn the faith itself
out, but they could not do that, and this
was the result. This was the harvest
CT thai sowing 800 years ago-thAt
every class of English society was per-
meated with inhdelity. Could they
parallel this state Of things in any
CaJhoiic country? They would find in~
fdels that could not be helped but
here bad Catholics do not die like dogs.
They know their religion. they renoem-
ber what they learned at Jheiz mothers
knee, and when 5hey come TO die they
return to their first love without the
priest being obliged to begin to instruct |,
them all over again from the begin
ming; but he pjtied the poor minister Of
religion who had to attend the dsati1~
beds Of the ordinary average English
man, aud he charged the church Of this
country with the responsibility for this
state Of things. How could the ordin-
airy ill-educated workingman be im-
pressed by church which was split up
into fragments teaching different and
even contradictory doctrines, and was
it to be marvelled that the cultured
man, the habitue Of the clubs, going a
little deeper, answered the invitation
of the Protestant minister to 90 to
church by laying claim to the right of
as he liked, seeing that the
Church Of England made the conces-
sion of such liberty one of it's boasts
and cardinal principles? The altitude
IF mind OF Lord Neutrality-suspicious.
essay on Ranke's History of
;lle Popes had probably done more than
any other single work to clear away
nisapprehension with reference to the
more typical than was
He went to hear Cardinal
Nlseman at St. Mary's, Mocrfelds, and
IN coming OUT he said to friend,
There are only two powers in The .
world, God and Babel; and, unfortun. /,
ltely, belong to Babel" From the =
divisions in the Protestant church, with :
is High Church and Low Church, and :
5road Church. and Rituaiism, and An. :
Catholicism, and Methodism, and
Congregationa)ism, the cultured critic
lot unfairly drew the inference that /
'rotestantism had no objective truth {
It all, and left each man free to manu- /
acture his own religion. When Luther t
tarted the reformation did he know Q
hat he was sowing the negation of a
aith? Three hundred years have q
assed: the harvest has come up, and a d
errlble harvest it is, as any man who q
as eyes can see. To use another SINH
tude, Luther sowed the wind and we a
re reaplng the Whirlwind. Let them g
OF be deceived by Luther's piety; a. a
IAN is known by his fruits, and the h
sformers are known by the terrible II
aryest of the death of faith. And je